A Warm Welcome to Year 4!
There are two classes in Year 4, Badgers and Frogs. In Badgers' class, the class teacher is Miss Rehman and Frogs’ class teacher is Miss Robinson. Supporting the learning in year four we have Mrs Passman, Miss Kendall and Miss Upshon.
The staff in year 4 have high expectations of all learners and strive to nurture our children to become inquisitive lifelong learners developing respect for their world and those around them.
Throughout our learning journey, we aim to offer engaging, hands-on experiences in all our subjects to bring learning to life.
A typical morning in Year 4 consists of daily Reading, English and Maths lessons in addition to ninja maths, building our spelling and handwriting skills. In Maths in year 4 we allocate time to practice mental arithmetic, including times tables and division facts. Within each lesson the children are given the chance to practice a skill with fluency questions and then stretched further with reasoning challenges. Children take the National Times table test as set by the DFE. The children are expected to know their times tables to 12 x tables. We spend time each week practicing these both in and outside of maths lessons. You can help your child further with this by logging them on to their Times table Rockstar accounts at home or practising on my multiplication check on Mathsframe.
In English, Year 4 begin to find their “writer’s voice” and create a range of genres. Our class texts inspire our writing and many of the texts chosen have underlying themes which are relevant to our local community.
Our foundation subject sessions aim to spark curiosity as we recognise the importance of allowing all children to develop their scientific, historical, artistic and geographical skills. We acknowledge that children excel and flourish through many different topics, speeds and learning styles; so, at every opportunity, we aim to increase engagement and do this by providing opportunities for children to immerse into the learning through educational visits and hands- on activities. We regularly use technology to enhance our learning and use this independently as well as with a partner. We aim to keep you up-to-date with all the fun we have through our online learning platform, Class Dojo.
We look forward to working with you!
Miss Rehman and Miss Robinson.
